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...field of sedition" when it passed the 1940 Smith Act and succeeding anti-subversive statutes. State laws are "in no sense uniform," and their enforcement could present "serious danger of conflict" with federal antisubversion operations. In the strongest dissent that Earl Warren has ever faced, Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition, specifically barred the exercise of state power to punish the same acts under state...
...Justices Reed, Burton and Minton dissenting) decision last week, the Supreme Court held Article 3 (a) unconstitutional...
...America to fight a patent monopoly suit (for the past six years fought mostly with press releases) brought against RCA by Zenith Radio Corp. Rusty, perhaps, but always game, Attorney Stevenson filed a petition seeking a delay of the trial with the U.S. Supreme Court, whose Associate Justice Sherman Minton at week's end turned Stevenson's brief down cold, also denied Stevenson's request for a hearing...
...Owen Lattimore, among other clients. Millard Tydings has a partnership with his father-in-law, onetime Ambassador Joseph Davies. Bennett Champ Clark and John Danaher, both former Senators, are judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals. One-third of the Supreme Court-Justices Hugo Black, Harold Burton and Sherman Minton-are former Senators...
...spite of the objections to the police methods, the Supreme Court (splitting 5-4) upheld the conviction of Irvine. Written by Justice Jackson (Warren, Reed, Minton and Clark concurring), the majority opinion 1) held that the federal gambling tax stamp is not a license to violate state law, and 2) reaffirmed the Court's previous ruling that the Federal Constitution does not forbid the use in state courts of illegally seized evidence...